Predict the Fall of Garuda! (04/13/2012)

[Lux_Rayna]

My prediction is that Garuda will take longer than Ifrit did the first time, or about as long. Why? I think its the litmus test for "balance". That is, developers have given us relatively easy content up til now. AV and CC were harder than the other stuff we've been given, and took a fair amount of time for ppl to do successfully. Garuda will probably be the hardest thing the devs have ever implemented in the game for several reasons:

1) Ppl been whining about difficulty

2) Jobs actually have to be *tested* to see where they are lacking. Only stupidly hard content will do that.

3) They specifically said they will address the whole "5 ranged dd for auto victory". I expect the fight to be severely punishing on ranged, but just as punishing on melee. In other words, almost impossible without figuring out how to balance a party.

Because we've been so accustomed to certain strategies, it will actually take quite a bit of time before someone can think outside the box and run a successful group. I expect it to be THE fight that will require a balanced party makeup where everyone is forced to cooperate in a highly successful manner.

[Rydin]

It'll be interesting....

Garuda will be weak to Ice
But there are no Ice combos and the actual Ice spells are more for status affect than damage....
Garuda will be strong against Fire
So it looks like Thunder>Thundara>Burst is the way to go for a Mage
Fists of Earth for a Monk (because Fist of Wind/Fire would be ineffective) meaning monk probably wont get much use
If you get knocked out of healing range A LOT then a PLD tank might be the way to go for self heals... although it would have to be seriously needed to warrant choosing PLD over WAR
Garuda seems like it would have some serious ranged AOE attacks (Like Ifrit), so BRD isn't quite as safe a DD as it has been on other fights
Dragoons jumps could prove useful in a fight like this

All just fun speculation of course... I could be 100% wrong

[Rydin]

It'd be cool to if they actually made you inflict gravity on her to keep her from flying so much.

Or it would be cool if you had to INCAP to keep her from flying so much

[TheFatHousecat]

Kind of silly that they're rewarding people guessing some time over the LS/party that gets the first kill (which could easily just get DM from the chest rofl)

OH HEY YOU GUESSED THE CORRECT TIME HERE GET A GARUDA WEAPON

Oh yeah, you guys who actually killed it first... have some Dark Matter

[Lux_Rayna]

Kind of silly that they're rewarding people guessing some time over the LS/party that gets the first kill (which could easily just get DM from the chest rofl)

OH HEY YOU GUESSED THE CORRECT TIME HERE GET A GARUDA WEAPON

Oh yeah, you guys who actually killed it first... have some Dark Matter

Lol nawww they'd still have to get 5 more wings or whatever to get a weapon. I thought Garuda required 10 like Ifrit.

[TheFatHousecat]

Lol nawww they'd still have to get 5 more wings or whatever to get a weapon. I thought Garuda required 10 like Ifrit.

Exactly xD

It would at least be cool to have a world/server first achievement, or something. If they're recording first kill times and making up contests I don't see why they couldn't do that

[Zumi]

Latency really shouldn't play a part in making a fight difficult. There is only so much they can do with server code optimization. Fact is even when 2.0 comes out the servers will still be located in Japan adding a lot of latency for people not in Japan. SE really should of rented out space at data centers in each region the game is supported you know like any other MMO company would do. So we wouldn't have this problem to start with.

I'll reserve judgement until 2.0 is out. Getting hit by stuff when on your screen it looks like your out of the way shouldn't happen.

[Lux_Rayna]

Latency really shouldn't play a part in making a fight difficult. There is only so much they can do with server code optimization. Fact is even when 2.0 comes out the servers will still be located in Japan adding a lot of latency for people not in Japan. SE really should of rented out space at data centers in each region the game is supported you know like any other MMO company would do. So we wouldn't have this problem to start with.

I'll reserve judgement until 2.0 is out. Getting hit by stuff when on your screen it looks like your out of the way shouldn't happen.

Who says Garuda will be hard because of latency o.O?

And really you dont need that great of latency in an MMORPG. Any problems caused by latency can be entirely fixed by optimizing the server. This isn't an FPS, or a game that requires split second timing.

[Zumi]

Who says Garuda will be hard because of latency o.O?

And really you dont need that great of latency in an MMORPG. Any problems caused by latency can be entirely fixed by optimizing the server. This isn't an FPS, or a game that requires split second timing.

Some other mmo's are much faster paced almost as fast as a FPS. Mostly because they also support PVP so they need a faster gameplay rate. In comparison FFXIV battle rate is pretty slow compared to most everything else out there.

[KingVintage]

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